Top 5 Homoeopathic remedies for fever in children

Fever is a common problem in the rainy season and winter season in children. The children easily get affected by change in season from summer to rainy season or from hot, humid environment to cold weather, or cloudy weather. The children affected because of low immunity. They get affected due to contact with other children also.

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The children get initially simple sneezing with coryza or only sneezing due to change in weather. The child then gets mild fever to moderate fever. The natural course is from sneezing to mild fever. Then they may get irritation in the throat which sometime increased to cause tonsillitis which is simple words their tonsils got swollen or become red. This all symptoms are indications of viral fever. Please note that tonsillitis present mostly after cold-drink or after eating ice-cream in the summer.

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Top 5 homoeopathic remedies for children in such cases are very useful. They are given according to symptoms matching. In homoeopathy, we called such cases acute which means the symptoms are of short duration. I am suggesting these remedies on my clinical experience. Make note that if fever is not controlled make sure that show your children to nearest doctor to examine and treat accordingly.

Fever in children

The top 5 homoeopathic remedies for fever in children are as follows.

Belladonna : Hot head with cold limbs, skin is hot but moist and dry alternately. Fever with no thirst which is also called as thirstlessness. The child feels internally coldness with externally pungent, burning , steaming heat. The children may have sweat with or just after the heat and mostly on face. Tonsillitis on right side where right tonsil is bright red.

Arsenic Iodide :Recurrent fever with sweat. Drenching night sweat with weakness. Most of the children can not endure cold. They are chilly.

Gelsemium :Most children gets sneezing initially with watery discharge from nose. They have body ache. Fever with chills with aching and languor, mixed with heat or alternating with heat. Chill may be up and down back. The children have cold hands and feet. Fever present with trembling. Thirst is absent. The children have paroxysms of fever, generally recur from 3 to 5 in the afternoon.

Natrum Muraticum (Nat Mur):Children having fever, chills between 9 to 11 am which begins in feet or small of back.The child have heat with violent thirst which increases with fever. Sweat present after every exertion. Morning chill and thirst is mostly seen. There is coldness of the body and continued chilliness is very marked.

Sulphur :Children have flushes of heat, feels too hot. There is heat with general throbbing between scapulae. Most of children have sweat on single parts like axillae, hands and feet. Profuse sweat at night with sulphur odor. This remedy is useful in remittent fever and septic fever.